Some Fun by practicing new formatting features and some custom visuals

This week I was practicing a bit in Power BI checking some new formatting functions and customer visuals. The topic was about Lego withing Maven Analytics Lego Challenge.

I didn’t want to create an official one pager entry for the challenge, rather trying to put together a motion dashboard with some great features.

Here are the main features I’ve used:

Custom Visuals:

Play Axis: it is pretty nice, I add the years to the visual and I can set that it starts to play the years and all visuals are interacting automatically.

Animated Bar Chart Race: Typical change over time type of visual I see every other day on LinkedIn. But pretty cool otherwise 🙂

Formatting Features:

I’ve created visuals showing pictures based on their URL link.

I’ve also utilized the recently – well it is already 2-3 months?! – released New Card visual with Dynamic Title, Subtitle and Dynamic Values.

The most interesting feature was the conditional visual appearance. Actually I’ve made all attributes of the visuals dynamic – the background, the border and the value that is only showing up at the appropriate year and is invisible for the rest of the time.

I enjoyed it very much so here you can review the full video about the result: